[Stefan] was nervous about putting the secret key for his Amazon Web Services account in his config file. In the security world, storing passwords in plain text is considered a very bad thing. but ...

A new feature proposal for the Python programming language wants to add "transparency" to the runtime and let security and auditing tools view when Python may be running potentially dangerous ...

Python 2.7.9, the latest bugfix release for the 2.x branch of the language, landed earlier today. In keeping with 2.x being in maintenance mode and the 3.x branch as the preference, this version adds ...

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The Python standard library ipaddress also suffers from the critical IP address validation vulnerability identical to the flaw that was reported in the "netmask" library earlier this year. The ...

The UK's cyber-security agency warned today developers to consider moving Python 2.x codebases to the newer 3.x branch due to the looming end-of-life (EOL) of the Python 2, scheduled for January 1, ...